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Lights Out

  • Posted by: Andrew Price
  • on March 29, 2008 at 6:17 pm

Last year the city of Sydney endeavored to turn out as many lights as possible between 8-9pm to make a statement about climate change and energy consumption. Today, for Earth Hour 2008, the initiative is going global.

Google got in the spirit and egocentric Ari Gold chipped in. We’ll be participating too.

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